Frontiers

JUNE 9, 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic not only caused a global health and economic crisis but also significantly reduced global CO2 emissions in 2020 by 6 to 7%, compared to 2019. Unless otherwise noted, you can republish articles posted in the Frontiers news blog — as long as you include a link back to the original research.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 14, 2022

Characterized by rapid climate change, pollution, and landscape alteration, the Anthropocene is an unofficial unit of geological time and is defined as the most recent period in Earth’s history (from the 1950s to present) when human activity started to have a significant impact on the planet’s ecosystems and climate.

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Frontiers

APRIL 13, 2022

ka Smutná, Barbora Duží, Meike Janssen, and Jan Vávra write about how our food behaviors have changed during Covid-19, and how those behaviors depend on where we live and who we are. Food awareness, whether meals were missed and other aspects of food anxiety, diet and health were also covered.

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

She is also a fellow with The George J Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and an associate of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute. Photo credit: Karrah Kwasnik What encouraged you to work towards sustainability, more specifically on climate change issues and sustainable agriculture? “I

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Sheffield DPH

AUGUST 22, 2024

Climate change is the most important public health crisis of the next 200 years. It is one of the priorities for Yorkshire and Humber Directors of public health. The actions that are good for the planet are good for health. Some time ago, YH DsPH and YH Climate commission ran an event. Enormously.

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Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

She is also a member of several international boards and commissions, including the United Nations High-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs and the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All. I know that in your recent work, you’ve been talking about how inequality is a huge driver of the climate crisis.

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Washington University in St. Louis - Institute for

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Written by Ashley Bardon, Isheeta Gupta, Aryan Kumar, Danielle Serota, and Brenna Simmons Another successful annual Global Health Week culminated with a “Meet the Experts” Student Social. Through her own global health journey, Iwelunmor continues to remind herself of her ‘scars’ and her ‘why’.

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Gideon

APRIL 4, 2024

However, thanks to globalization and climate change, experts recommend that medical and public health professionals worldwide remain vigilant for signs of pinta. Read more on the GIDEON blog. Pinta is a rare infectious disease that causes skin infections and is primarily endemic to parts of Central and South America.

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The Health Care Blog

JULY 12, 2022

Even worse, our blithe resistance to following public health/medical advice, and our credulity for misinformation, aren’t unique to the pandemic but are endemic to our attitudes towards health generally. We’re not making wholesale changes to our healthcare systems or the way we live. The future sure looks dangerous.

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Frontiers

JULY 28, 2021

Publishing their findings in Frontiers in Public Health , Dr Emmanuelle Logette and Prof Henry Markram, along with a group of Blue Brain Project researchers, developed machine learning models to mine 240,000 scientific articles openly accessible in the CORD-19 database. “Is Click on the infographic for a larger version. A vast database.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Cohen told The Washington Post : “It’s a shock but not a change in direction.” . We have a climate change/global warming crisis that threatens to wreak havoc on human societies, we’re still in the middle of a global pandemic, and our political/cultural climate seems even more volatile than the actual climate.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This is post 3 of 4 in this mini-series looking back at the public health communication around the COVID vaccines, why trust was lost, and where communication broke down. Guilt is helpful—it reveals when behaviors need to change. Catch up on the first two posts: misinformation versus miscommunication and expectation management.

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UK Health Security

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Pinaceae (pine) pollen On the roof of a UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) lab, at Chilton’s Harwell Science Campus in Oxfordshire, a new chapter in artificial intelligence (AI) and pollen monitoring is unfolding. Real-time data and pollen patterns The real-time capability is a game-changer.

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Frontiers

JULY 18, 2023

The blog, Five traits to look for in a Systems Leader , explains more about what this concept is and represents. Participants, future systems leaders, explore intricate complex systems (ecological, economic, political, and social) while developing skills for driving systemic change.

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The Health Care Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

Climate change not only leads to northward shifts, but expanded species diversity, accompanied by shorter migratory routes. Extreme climatic events, more common in an age of “global weirding” of weather, are also more common. Both spell greater mixing and exchange of viruses across avian species.

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Gideon

OCTOBER 4, 2023

On October 2nd, 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) approved R21, a vaccine that showed high efficacy in clinical trials. With climate change and globalization, mosq1uito-borne illnesses have been spreading to non-endemic regions as well. Read more on our blog: [link]. We have a new vaccine against malaria.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

For example: Employer-sponsored health insurance tax preference (WWII) Hill-Burton Act (1946) Medicare/Medicaid (1965) Federal HMO Act (1973) Stark Physician Self-Referral Law (1989) DGRs (1983) & RBRVS (1992) CHIP (1997) Medicare Modernization Act (2003) Affordable Care Act (2010).

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Tulane Public Health Blog

APRIL 14, 2024

Quality health care should not have borders. While healthcare organizations around the globe work to improve access to quality care, global health professionals work to bring together national and international efforts to address health inequity. The fields differ, however, in their area of focus.

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Public Healthy

AUGUST 21, 2020

I started thinking about this blog last year, when it was still basically socially acceptable to cough on strangers. It was to be about my worries that we were losing the battle for ‘hearts and minds’ on what public health is, and should be, and how we are occasionally our own worst enemies. Simpler times. Abolish PHE! Defund the WHO!

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Monday Morning

AUGUST 30, 2022

The blog reflected issues of the day, sometimes related primarily to our school, but more often on topics with broader relevance and resonance. The blog will be available to read here , but this is my last post. The pandemic changed the importance and urgency of public health, resources for public health, and how we work.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Scientists now fear that climate change will impact the upper atmosphere in ways that will cause space debris to burn up in it less often, making the problem worse. Health systems take their medical debt – caused by their excessive charges and our inadequate health insurance system(s) – and monetize it.

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The Health Care Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Our power plants and transmission lines are aging badly, we have a phobia of nuclear that is also starting to apply to coal as well, climate change is throwing more extreme weather at us, and many of the renewable options (solar, wind, geothermal) are not quite ready for prime time yet. So, get a generator. In fact, many people are.

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Sheffield DPH

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Does your economic story talks to big macro trends – demography, geopolitics, mobility, ecosystem, health, tech, governance shifts. Blogged on that extensively over the years. Blogged on that extensively over the years. See this blog [link]. This from Marmot team on the health of hidden workers is also good.

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BU School of Public Health Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2024

students Meet Emily Goldmann, Director of SPH’s Online MPH Program Goldmann, also a clinical associate professor of epidemiology, discusses what led her to SPH and why the innovative format of the Online MPH is changing the virtual learning experience for the public health workforce.

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Sheffield DPH

JANUARY 14, 2023

Public Health” in almost all guises won’t deliver results fast enough on the right now issues. In the medium to long term pretty much everybody says “public health” is “the answer” In whole or in part. Some talk about “prevention” or “public health”. See my blog dog that doesn’t bark…. Not into health.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The study shows the critical need for rapid climate crisis mitigation in Europe, such as the adaptation to summer droughts and storage of water in winter. . The ongoing climate crisis has already had drastic global impacts. Researching the future occurrence of droughts is crucial for adequate climate crisis mitigation.

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BU School of Public Health Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

For more than a decade, researchers for Pregnancy Study Online (PRESTO) at the School of Public Health have uncovered lifestyle, environmental, and medical factors that may affect fertility and pregnancy outcomes. Its goal: to identify modifiable changes that may increase one’s chances of conceiving and having a successful pregnancy. “We

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The Health Care Blog

JUNE 7, 2022

Baby Boomers and our elders are focused on preserving their wealth (including Social Security, pensions, 401k/IRA) and health insurance (especially Medicare). But maybe we actually have such a narrative, only it’s organized around the life arc of the older baby boomers, and it just isn’t serving us well anymore.”.

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Public Healthy

OCTOBER 29, 2019

My Dad often talks about how the culture of public service, respect and sense of worth changed for the worse when British Telecom became BT. There is lots of talk about ‘place-based’ approaches to health at the minute. A bit like Sir Alex Ferguson was for me growing up… In general, people don’t like too much change too quickly.

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Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Wetlands are environmental heavyweights What we do know is that wetlands are an underrated champion of the environment, the economy and climate mitigation, despite representing less than 6% of land in the contiguous United States. This post originally ran on The Union of Concerned Scientists blog and is republished here with permission.

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Environmental Health News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Then there is Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn: a climate skeptic who says infrastructure projects that fight climate change are a gateway to socialism. In voting against the IRA, he blasted clean energy programs as woke climate and social programs that wont work. They can just be bald-faced aggrandizers.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Best health care in the world : Some 26 million Americans (about 8%) have no health insurance (and that is much better than it was pre-ACA). One in four Americans have skipped health care in the last 12 months due to costs, and one in five have not filled a prescription due to costs.

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